The Money Message

Updated Oct. 3, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

In most election years, Republicans raise the most campaign cash, and Democrats make the best of it by claiming to be the party of the people, not of fat cats. Not this year. The Democratic Presidential candidates -- or at least Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- are gathering huge cash hordes that are more than double the size of those raised by their main GOP opponents.

In this year's third quarter that ended last week, Mrs. Clinton raised $27 million, $22 million of which she can use in the Democratic primaries. That...